Sally Timms

Sally Timms (born 29 November 1959 in Leeds, England) is a singer and songwriter. Timms is best known for her long involvement with the Mekons whom she joined in 1985. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wzfuxqlgldte~T1 Sally Timms] at Allmusic]

She recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of nineteen with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks in 1980. Prior to joining the Mekons she was in a band called the She Hees. She has released several other solo CDs, Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat in 1988, To the Land of Milk and Honey in 1995, and a country album, Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos, for Bloodshot Records in 1998. Her latest solo recording "In the World of Him" was released in 2004 on Touch and Go Records.

Timms sang “Give me Back my Dreams” on The Sixths’ Hyacinths and Thistles and has recorded with Marc Almond, the Aluminum Group, Jon Rauhouse’s Steel Guitar Show, the Sadies, Andre Williams and A Grape Dope. She participated in Vito Acconci’s “Theater Project for a Rock Band” as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in 1995 and also performed with Kathy Acker in her lesbian pirate operetta "Pussy, King of the Pirates" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and elsewhere. Timms sang several songs on The Executioner’s Last Songs CDs, which raised funds for the Illinois Moratorium Against the Death Penalty, and participated in Jon Langford’s multi-media performance project "The Executioner's Last Songs". She occasionally writes crude broadsheets on pop culture and recently directed a Christmas pirate panto "Catfish Girl and her adventures amongst mermaids and pyrates" at the Hideout Bar in Chicago.

Her musical style is often placed under the genre of alternative country.

Discography

* 1980 - "Hangahar"
* 1988 - "Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat"
* 1995 - "It Says Here"
* 1995 - "To the Land of Milk and Honey"
* 1997 - "Cowboy Sally"
* 1999 - "Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos"
* 2000 - "Songs of False Hope and High Values" (with Jon Langford)
* 2004 - "In the World of Him"

Trivia

*'Horses', which appears on both "Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat" and "Songs of False Hope and High Values", has been covered twice by Will Oldham. He first performed it under the Palace Songs moniker, and later as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

ee also

*Wee Hairy Beasties

She was once married to Fred Armisen a cast member on Saturday Night Live. They later divorced.

References

External links

* [http://www.mekons.de/sallyfr.htm Sally Timms page at Club Mekon]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/SallyTimms Sally Timms collection] at the Internet Archive's live music archive